Re: XHTML 2.0 review

About the review, why not to seize this opportunity to mention the 
problem of bidi texts in the title elements [1] (as well as for title or 
alt attributes)?
To display correctly in browsers, bidi texts, i.e. ar/he mixed with 
latin, might be surrounded by the pair of Unicode  control characters 
U+202B (RLE) and U+202C (PDF)  to force the RTL directionnality to apply 
for titles. The corresponding XHTML entities are &x202B; and &x2020C;
Could we suggest to XHTML2.0 to add this, for example as a trick, to 
avoid the problem?

BTW, the example in "15.1.3. 15.1.1. Inheritance of text direction 
information" [2] says:

<html dir="rtl">
<head>
<title>/...a right-to-left title.../</title>         (*)
</head>
/...right-to-left text...                           (**/)
<p dir="ltr">/...left-to-right text.../</p>
<p>/...right-to-left text again.../</p>              
</html>

The "right-to-left-ness" in (*) is not always the same as in (**)

Regards,

Najib


[1] http://www.w3.org/International/tests/sec-bidi-misc-1
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/mod-bidi.html#sec_15.1.1.


Richard Ishida wrote:

>I have created a new table containing the points we will put forward as a group, edited to reflect our discussions during the telecon (as far as point 21). See http://www.w3.org/International/2004/10/xhtml2-i18n-review
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